Blinds - vertical v ventian - views please!

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I was planning on having vertical blinds at the front & back of the dining room - we already have them on the patio doors - plus two front windows upstairs. DH suggested wooden venetian blinds, which I like the look of, but TBH am worried that they will need constant dusting (which won't get done!). Any advice/views welcome!

I rarely dust my wooden venetians - but then I have a rather high tolerance for filth . Lakeland catalogue sell special venetian blind cleaners that look rather nifty - not that I've bothered investing yet!

I don't know, I always wonder if vertical blinds look a bit office-y, but maybe that's just because I haven't ever seen them in a home setting.

I hate vertical blinds much prefer the look of horizontal blinds. 16mm ones tend to look better in a living area than broader ones, less clunky. They don't need much cleaning TBH. If you attack them with a feather duster (blinds closed) one in a while they'll be fine!

Definitely wooden venetian. Had the vertical in the old house and thought they looked officey. Have textured metallic venetian and they really do show the dust and are a pita to clean - wooden is the way to go imo.

herb that sounds like a good idea - I could cope with that!

hester I know what you mean about verticals looking a bit officey but they are very common (popular, not naff ) where I live. I've seen the Lakeland duster thingy but it would end up buried under the kitchen sink I suspect ....

The house across the road from me has vertical blinds and I really don't like the look of them at all. I suppose it's just a matter of personal taste

Our house is the only one in the row to have wooden venetian blinds, all the other have verticals. And IMO our house looks soooo much better.

Also, this might sway you - we are the only ones who aren't 70!

Wouldn't vertical ones get just as dusty?

Looks like it will be wooden venetian! Thanks for the tip about 16mm Driven and I'm pleased to hear they don't need tooooo much more than a quick flick with a feather duster.

I know you can get some brilliant colours in the metallic but it takes us so long to redecorate that I need something that will go with anything,so will probably stick with wood.

Vertical blinds are dreadful-like a grim council office (and I still haven't got round to replacing nasty set gracing hallway window)

Yuck

LOL at havoc

I'm intrigued - where is this community full of vertical venetians? I've honestly never seen them in a home setting, so you must be a long way from me!

Vertical are for offices.

wooden horizonal look fab... i've got em all over house.

Cheap on't'interweb

fab people who deliver dead quick an-all

hester Suffolk, I'm surrounded by very lovely, but very elderly neighbours. Vertical blinds were very fashionable in 1984 .

I agree wooden!I have 50mmm thick antique white ones and they look like shutters from outside and really block draughts and noise on sash windows.Some really good deals online if you google!

Ah, Suffolk! My brother lives there - I'm going to have a good nosey in the windows next time I'm up.

Glad to see the MN vote goes for wooden venetians.

I've just bought a house built in 1984 and every window has vertical blinds. I think they have been up since day 1.

As we are by the coast I plan on getting off white wooden venetian blinds. I like the ones with the tape instead of the cord fixings.

I would love plantation shutters but my windows are too small to justify the cost. Glad to hear that venetions will give the same effect as I had hoped they would.

noddyholder who supplied your blinds if you dont mind me asking?

wooden-blinds-direct.co.uk

Thanks

noddy thanks from me too, I have weird window measurements and have been looking for wood venetian to fit for ages. They are brilliant prices!

Noddy holder, I've got the same blinds as you!

I got them in the dark wenge (chocolate brown) with the ladder tapes, and they look really good. The prices are great too, because rather than true made-to-measure they're just cut down to fit, but you wouldn't know unless you look at the cut edges (because they're not painted/stained - not a problem unless you go for a dark colour though). And ignore the delivery times - they said a month, but mine came within a week and so did the ones my mum ordered for her house. My only minor gripe is I wish I'd ordered the cream rather than the wenge, because mine are a total pain to dust and show up every spec, but my mum's cream ones always look clean. They're really easy to wipe though (if you can ever be bothered!) because they have a smooth shiny surface, rather than some wooden blinds that are rough and hold onto the dust.

I have antique white at teh fron alabaster in teh bedrooms and light oak in kitchen/family room Brilliant!

terrible typing sorry!

I'm very jealous! The dark ones do look great because they match our dark wood furniture, but they never look clean. I got a microfiber cloth which works quite well, but I think I'll have to invest in one of those blind cleaners because it takes ages to wipe every single slat, and because they're so wide you can't even just run the cloth over them when they're closed. I can see them getting swapped for cream ones before the end of the year!

Those of you who have the blinds from website noddy linked to, is the quality/service ok?

I dont understand how they can be offering Luxaflex blinds for such very low prices, if you go to Luxaflex direct they cost another couple of hundred quid I think...